Conversations: Classical and Renaissance Intertextuality

This volume explores the familiar and accessible nature of classical literature in the Renaissance, with essays discussing Ariosto, Spenser, Du Bellay, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Marvell. It aims to recapture the sense of intimacy and immediacy of these works, shedding light on how poets have thought about their predecessors and their contributions to the world of poetry.

Format: Hardback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 16 December 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press

For the educated poets and readers of the Renaissance, classical literature was as familiar and accessible as the work of their compatriots and contemporaries – often even more so. This volume aims to recapture that sense of intimacy and immediacy, as scholars from both sides of the modern disciplinary divide come together to eavesdrop on the conversations conducted through allusion and intertextual play in works ranging from Petrarch to Milton and beyond. The essays include discussions of Ariosto, Spenser, Du Bellay, Marlowe, the anonymous drama Caesars Revenge, Shakespeare and Marvell, and look forward to the grand retrospect of Shelleys Adonais. Together, they help us to understand how poets across the ages have thought about their relation to their predecessors, and about their own contributions to what Shelley would call 'that great poem, which all poets... have built up since the beginning of the world.'

For the educated poets and readers of the Renaissance, classical literature was as familiar and accessible as the work of their compatriots and contemporaries – often even more so. This volume aims to recapture that sense of intimacy and immediacy, as scholars from both sides of the modern disciplinary divide come together to eavesdrop on the conversations conducted through allusion and intertextual play in works ranging from Petrarch to Milton and beyond. The essays include discussions of Ariosto, Spenser, Du Bellay, Marlowe, the anonymous drama Caesars Revenge, Shakespeare and Marvell, and look forward to the grand retrospect of Shelleys Adonais. Together, they help us to understand how poets across the ages have thought about their relation to their predecessors, and about their own contributions to what Shelley would call 'that great poem, which all poets... have built up since the beginning of the world.'

Weight: 560g
Dimension: 163 x 242 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781526152671